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...years as the restlessly perfectionist editor of the New York Times's fat, sober Sunday supplements, Lester Markel, 64, has always put fact above fancy (and reaps his reward in juicy ads for bras, girdles and lingerie). In the latest Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Markel chides other editors for stressing entertainment. "I have been impelled at times," says he, "to inquire whether [we] should not properly be called The Froth Estate...
...wide-open-beaked" poetry readings all over the U.S.. Dylan gave "the concentrated artillery of his flesh and blood, and, above all, his breath. I used to come in late and hear, through the mikes, the breath-straining panting . . . booming blue thunder into the teenagers' delighted bras and briefs. And I thought, Jesus, why doesn't he pipe down...
...letter and added its own objections to foreign tourists who "wear in our cities clothing fit only for their own bedrooms or bathrooms." The weather is no excuse, said Osservatore, for parading the streets -and even St. Peter's Square-in hip-high shorts and halter bras: "Italy is not on the equator, and even there lions have their coats and crocodiles are sheathed in their precious hides...
Soon the mansion is oppressive with rampant femininity. Curtains part to reveal a feminine world of black bras and girdles, as a woman, whose soberer decisions may mean hundreds of thousands of dollars to a U.S. clothing firm, peers into a mirror with the teetering look of calculated indecision, the peculiar mark of a woman buying a dress for herself. Outside, a thousand newspapers and a hundred periodicals were beginning to thunder the word to the limit of the known world. This year the word on Dior is: "The line is free, free as the Paris air ... free from making...
...November, two stern and intractable members of Franco's Guardia Civil, on routine patrol on the beach in search of smugglers, peered into the windows of an American's seaside cottage to see what was to them an appalling sight: ladies in fig leaves and leopard-skin bras dancing with gentlemen in fur loincloths. Wanamaker Heir Gurnee Munn Jr. had invited the American colony to a caveman party. Many of the 100-odd guests he had invited to come in fancy undress had decided to stay home because of the bad weather. Those that came, despite their Neanderthal...